Msi Afterburner

[W-L]

I have an older 5870 for a media PC and wanted to overclock it but i ran into an issue where I've been trying to get it to run at 1000mhz core clock, 1200mhz memory at 1.3V but it's still unstable. I've read in other places people are able to get up to 1100mhz with 1.3V, can someone shed some light on this for me, Thanks :D

[Helltech]

May I ask why you need to overclock a media pc? It is just going to make it run hotter/louder without any performance gains that you need, and hot and loud are bad for media pcs.

[marv1336]

Maybe your card needs need more vcore to go higger. But I would't go higger than that, you won't get much performance increase from 1000mhz to 1100mhz, or the performance increase that you will get is not worthy killing your card, and there is the hotter/louder/power hungry thing.

Cheers mate!

[W-L]

@ Helltech: Occasionally I play a few multiplayer games on it when some friends come over since we don't all have to crowd around my computer monitor

@marv1336: I'll take it a shot at it but yeah if not i guess it may be time for an upgrade

Thanks for your help guys :D

[TechFan@ic]

The voltage displayed in afterburner might not be accurate, use GPU-z to monitor the actual voltage .

The card could be voltage locked & adjusting the voltage from MSI afterburner might not be doing anything.